Frank is at Westonka Library Wednesday, December 5
Upcoming Events:December 5, 2018 Frank will be speaking on the I-94 Murders at the Hennepin County Library, Westonka Branch, in Mound, Minnesota from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. The address is 2079 Commerce Blvd, Mount MN 55364.December 20, 2018 Frank will be speaking on forensic work and his latest thriller, The I-94 Murders, at the Hastings Bierstube, located on 109 11th St. W. Hastings, MN at 6:30 p.m. It's a great place to have a cold beverage and enjoy a discussion on mystery! I am in the process of completing Book 3 in the series, titled Last Call. This week I’m sharing quotes and stories from the past year. I will get back to addressing a forensic case next week. I hope you enjoy.
2018 Quotes
I helped a man of Mexican ancestry today who is a great worker, but he struggles a little with English. He works at a factory and applied for a promotion working on a new machine. He's the guy people go to fix the machines if they aren't working, and he cleans anytime he isn't busy, thinking "anything to help the company." His coworkers thought he was a shoe-in for the job, but instead it went to another guy who has been fired 3 times for being incompetent. I've talked to him about how frustrating situations are opportunities to show we don't respond like everyone else. He was proud of how he handled it.
He went to his boss and asked why he didn't receive the promotion.
His boss responded by teasing, "Your English isn't too good."
He asked his boss to follow him to the machine. He then stood there silent next to it. When his boss started talking he said, "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
After a bit his boss said, "You realize this machine doesn't talk?"
He told his boss, "Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you realized this."
We had an individual who refused to sign the Tennesan warning (which states the government may access your file if they suspect your are a terrorist) because she is not from Tennessee.
A man charged with disorderly conduct stated, “Some women should come with a warning label. She was like a doorknob; everyone who came to the door got a turn.”
A reference was made by a client toward a person who knows better, but is ignoring the help in front of him. A person stated, “The lights are on, but nobody’s home.”
After some thought he changed it to “He’s home. He just ain’t answerin’ the door.”
“I don’t know what’s left for me to learn.”
“He acknowledged engaging in exhibitionism on approximately 40 occasions. He stated that it would go in spurts."
"The last time I went to a strip club was right before I was incarcerated. I went there to say goodbye to my friends and acquaintances."
“I pled guilty because there have been so many allegations of sexual abuse in the news that I knew I wouldn’t be able to get a fair trial.”
“Women are interested in me. I guess I’m a desirable individual, who’s not hard to look at. I guess I have sort of a presence. I need to be responsible for my behavior, because maybe women can’t be in my presence.”
From a juvenile taking the Beck Youth Inventories 2:
“The question says my heart pounds. Would you be able to fill out this form if it didn’t?”
He got released from jail for drinking.
A high risk situation was when a woman grabbed my penis at work; It was intentional. I didn’t report it.
I just had a client report his mother has Influenza A, to which a fellow group member asked (with all seriousness), "Is that a Canadian thing?"
Therapist: Have you seen Ghost?
Client: That scene where Demi Moore kisses Whoopi Goldberg thinking she’s her dead boyfriend—isn’t that interracial lesbian necrophilia. How come I’m the only one it bothered?
Therapist: now there’s a question worthy of exploring.
The domestic abuse group was looking at the power and control wheel. Despite acknowledging acting in an intimidating manner, one individual declared, “I am taking accountability I just don’t do anything on this wheel. Maybe you should take accountability for saying I’m not taking accountability.”
A client working on his Values assignment wrote about consent:
“No” does not cut it as it may be construed as a moan of pleasure. A key word must be agreed upon for both partners to halt, such as "DUCK” that can be a clear statement to stop.
"Going to treatment is like going to church. You feel bad the night before, but when you come through the doors you feel welcomed and start feeling better about yourself"
“What irks my therapist is that I know more than he does. He calls that intellectualizing.”
You need to understand it’s the probation officers job to take a dim view of humanity.
While discussing the Defense Mechanisms assignment, we came to ‘dramatizing.’ I asked the client if they had used dramatizing, and what they had written for the example. The client responded, “Yes. One time I came home and my grandpa was walking around in his whitey-tighties. I was dramatized.”
Interviewer: "How is your partner reacting to your offense?"
Client: (southern drawl) "Oh… she's madder than a hornet!"
"I believe love and money are very much the same thing. I got the impression that you don't believe that from reading the workbook."
Agent to a client who is restricted from having contact with minors:
“Did you watch a movie with a 17-year-old female?”
Client (looking confused): “What movie?!?!”
We had a perfect relationship. “Every time I called her from jail she answered the phone.”
“I’m going to be a little late for my appointment. The weather is affecting other people’s ability to drive.”
“Sex is like boxing. If both of you aren’t consenting, one of you is committing a crime.”
Have you ever been emotionally abused?
Client: "I'm too narcissistic for that."
A caller left a message for us to return a call to him and indicated that he hoped his number showed up on Caller ID as he did not know what it was.
Therapist: Have you been to a strip club?
Client: Not yet. I’ve tried. No one will take me.
"You still look kind of young; you can probably remember what it was like to be my age."
Client: “She wants me to have her baby."
Therapist: "Do you feel like you could take care of a child?"
Client: "Yes, but I want to have sex first."
There was an exposer who exposed himself to the staff at the hotel he was staying at. In the police report, it says that the hotel staff reported she was currently interning at a sex offender treatment program, and therefore she knew that the man’s behavior was not OK.
I don’t want to be in a group with the guy I turned in for being sexual with his cellmate. I don’t know his name, but his street name is “Turtle.”
I've come to understand that my offense could be considered offensive by people with common sense.
“My mom was a wine drinker. She didn’t really drink alcohol.”
“I can count the number of sexual partners I’ve had on 1 finger. The total is 4.”
Since I have been in jail I have read way more books than I ever read in school and by way more I mean almost 8.
What led you to hit your partner?
“She accused me of being a wife-beater, and I was having none of that?”
There appears to be no limit to stupid!
Regarding the incident which led to his incarceration: “What happened, is, I bit him between the legs . . . he was trying to get me to release, he had to hit me in the head . . . You know, the typical stuff that goes on when couples are drinking."
I haven’t drank since the presidential debate.
Therapist: "Do you have Vertigo?"
Client: "No, I think I ‘m a Gemini."
I don’t have problems; it’s just that people in Wisconsin don’t want me to have sex
A client was talking about having a baby. He stated: "I don't care if they are healthy or not; just that they are a boy or a girl."
I passed my polygraph with flying colors. I’m not the butthole some people think I am.
Therapist: How were you disciplined as a child?
Client: My parents never disciplined me. How do you think I ended up this way?
Therapist: Were you close to any grandparents?
Client: I wasn't too close to my grandma. She always gave us crappy stuff for Christmas.
A man wrote his us a letter from prison. I liked the following insight: In prison they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.
My charge was just like Oceans 11. A huge set up.
Group talking about the stupidity of masturbating in the drive way
Therapist: You have lots of unexpected visitors at your house…agents…law enforcement…
Client 1: Jehovah’s witness
Client 2: That’s one way to get rid of them
“I’ve found the best way to say no to people, is with a note of condescension.”
Therapist: Have you ever experienced anything you felt was sexually abusive?
Client: Do you mean good abusive? Or bad abusive? I've experienced some good abusive.
Therapist: Have you ever traded drugs for sex? (He had a long history of dealing coke.)
Client: Is this a trick question?
Therapist: Well, I'm guessing the answer is 'yes,' and I already kind of knew the answer when I asked the question, so sort of…
Client (chuckling): Then, yes, I've done that… quite a bit.
Therapist: What did your parents tell you about sex?
Client: It’s like dynamite, if you do it the wrong way it could backfire.
On a t-shirt: Your opinion matters, just not to me
When asked what kind of grades he gets in school, a client replied, “They were all letters.”
During an assessment a client stated, after being asked how he learned about sexuality, “I always had the inclination there was more to my penis than urination.”
A group member asked another "What changed? When you started, you were in such denial?"
He responded, "You know, I finally came to reality about what I did instead of believing the bullshit I wanted to believe."
During an assessment interview, a client reported his hobbies included car shopping. He described this as breaking into people’s cars and taking what he wanted.
Written in an assessment of an offender with a long criminal history:
“To his credit, he has not fathered any children.”
He does a negative energy walk, like a rooster, to intimidate me.
Client: What do you call a musician without a girlfriend? Answer: Homeless
“She says I forced sex on her but my parents didn’t hear it.”
Therapist: Were they in the house at the time?
“They were in the same room.”
Therapist: Is it possible she didn’t want to have sex because your parents were in the room?
“Looking back on it, that’s probably it.”
“You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than of buying a pull tab.”
Thanks for listening! Prepare for a Merry Christmas!
Frank Frank speaking on forensics at Inver Hills Community College to criminal justice and law enforcement students.
This is Frank with members of the Inver Hills Community College Criminal Justice Club and the Inver Hills Community College Psychology Club. 
Frank signing books at Beagle and Wolfe bookstore in Park Rapids. 
Frank discussed Murder Book with the very well read and well educated Gang Of Twelve Minus One Bookclub (GOTMOB) 
Preston and Olivia 
Pierz basketball destroys the Bombers! 
2018 Quotes
I helped a man of Mexican ancestry today who is a great worker, but he struggles a little with English. He works at a factory and applied for a promotion working on a new machine. He's the guy people go to fix the machines if they aren't working, and he cleans anytime he isn't busy, thinking "anything to help the company." His coworkers thought he was a shoe-in for the job, but instead it went to another guy who has been fired 3 times for being incompetent. I've talked to him about how frustrating situations are opportunities to show we don't respond like everyone else. He was proud of how he handled it.
He went to his boss and asked why he didn't receive the promotion.
His boss responded by teasing, "Your English isn't too good."
He asked his boss to follow him to the machine. He then stood there silent next to it. When his boss started talking he said, "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
After a bit his boss said, "You realize this machine doesn't talk?"
He told his boss, "Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you realized this."
We had an individual who refused to sign the Tennesan warning (which states the government may access your file if they suspect your are a terrorist) because she is not from Tennessee.
A man charged with disorderly conduct stated, “Some women should come with a warning label. She was like a doorknob; everyone who came to the door got a turn.”
A reference was made by a client toward a person who knows better, but is ignoring the help in front of him. A person stated, “The lights are on, but nobody’s home.”
After some thought he changed it to “He’s home. He just ain’t answerin’ the door.”
“I don’t know what’s left for me to learn.”
“He acknowledged engaging in exhibitionism on approximately 40 occasions. He stated that it would go in spurts."
"The last time I went to a strip club was right before I was incarcerated. I went there to say goodbye to my friends and acquaintances."
“I pled guilty because there have been so many allegations of sexual abuse in the news that I knew I wouldn’t be able to get a fair trial.”
“Women are interested in me. I guess I’m a desirable individual, who’s not hard to look at. I guess I have sort of a presence. I need to be responsible for my behavior, because maybe women can’t be in my presence.”
From a juvenile taking the Beck Youth Inventories 2:
“The question says my heart pounds. Would you be able to fill out this form if it didn’t?”
He got released from jail for drinking.
A high risk situation was when a woman grabbed my penis at work; It was intentional. I didn’t report it.
I just had a client report his mother has Influenza A, to which a fellow group member asked (with all seriousness), "Is that a Canadian thing?"
Therapist: Have you seen Ghost?
Client: That scene where Demi Moore kisses Whoopi Goldberg thinking she’s her dead boyfriend—isn’t that interracial lesbian necrophilia. How come I’m the only one it bothered?
Therapist: now there’s a question worthy of exploring.
The domestic abuse group was looking at the power and control wheel. Despite acknowledging acting in an intimidating manner, one individual declared, “I am taking accountability I just don’t do anything on this wheel. Maybe you should take accountability for saying I’m not taking accountability.”
A client working on his Values assignment wrote about consent:
“No” does not cut it as it may be construed as a moan of pleasure. A key word must be agreed upon for both partners to halt, such as "DUCK” that can be a clear statement to stop.
"Going to treatment is like going to church. You feel bad the night before, but when you come through the doors you feel welcomed and start feeling better about yourself"
“What irks my therapist is that I know more than he does. He calls that intellectualizing.”
You need to understand it’s the probation officers job to take a dim view of humanity.
While discussing the Defense Mechanisms assignment, we came to ‘dramatizing.’ I asked the client if they had used dramatizing, and what they had written for the example. The client responded, “Yes. One time I came home and my grandpa was walking around in his whitey-tighties. I was dramatized.”
Interviewer: "How is your partner reacting to your offense?"
Client: (southern drawl) "Oh… she's madder than a hornet!"
"I believe love and money are very much the same thing. I got the impression that you don't believe that from reading the workbook."
Agent to a client who is restricted from having contact with minors:
“Did you watch a movie with a 17-year-old female?”
Client (looking confused): “What movie?!?!”
We had a perfect relationship. “Every time I called her from jail she answered the phone.”
“I’m going to be a little late for my appointment. The weather is affecting other people’s ability to drive.”
“Sex is like boxing. If both of you aren’t consenting, one of you is committing a crime.”
Have you ever been emotionally abused?
Client: "I'm too narcissistic for that."
A caller left a message for us to return a call to him and indicated that he hoped his number showed up on Caller ID as he did not know what it was.
Therapist: Have you been to a strip club?
Client: Not yet. I’ve tried. No one will take me.
"You still look kind of young; you can probably remember what it was like to be my age."
Client: “She wants me to have her baby."
Therapist: "Do you feel like you could take care of a child?"
Client: "Yes, but I want to have sex first."
There was an exposer who exposed himself to the staff at the hotel he was staying at. In the police report, it says that the hotel staff reported she was currently interning at a sex offender treatment program, and therefore she knew that the man’s behavior was not OK.
I don’t want to be in a group with the guy I turned in for being sexual with his cellmate. I don’t know his name, but his street name is “Turtle.”
I've come to understand that my offense could be considered offensive by people with common sense.
“My mom was a wine drinker. She didn’t really drink alcohol.”
“I can count the number of sexual partners I’ve had on 1 finger. The total is 4.”
Since I have been in jail I have read way more books than I ever read in school and by way more I mean almost 8.
What led you to hit your partner?
“She accused me of being a wife-beater, and I was having none of that?”
There appears to be no limit to stupid!
Regarding the incident which led to his incarceration: “What happened, is, I bit him between the legs . . . he was trying to get me to release, he had to hit me in the head . . . You know, the typical stuff that goes on when couples are drinking."
I haven’t drank since the presidential debate.
Therapist: "Do you have Vertigo?"
Client: "No, I think I ‘m a Gemini."
I don’t have problems; it’s just that people in Wisconsin don’t want me to have sex
A client was talking about having a baby. He stated: "I don't care if they are healthy or not; just that they are a boy or a girl."
I passed my polygraph with flying colors. I’m not the butthole some people think I am.
Therapist: How were you disciplined as a child?
Client: My parents never disciplined me. How do you think I ended up this way?
Therapist: Were you close to any grandparents?
Client: I wasn't too close to my grandma. She always gave us crappy stuff for Christmas.
A man wrote his us a letter from prison. I liked the following insight: In prison they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.
My charge was just like Oceans 11. A huge set up.
Group talking about the stupidity of masturbating in the drive way
Therapist: You have lots of unexpected visitors at your house…agents…law enforcement…
Client 1: Jehovah’s witness
Client 2: That’s one way to get rid of them
“I’ve found the best way to say no to people, is with a note of condescension.”
Therapist: Have you ever experienced anything you felt was sexually abusive?
Client: Do you mean good abusive? Or bad abusive? I've experienced some good abusive.
Therapist: Have you ever traded drugs for sex? (He had a long history of dealing coke.)
Client: Is this a trick question?
Therapist: Well, I'm guessing the answer is 'yes,' and I already kind of knew the answer when I asked the question, so sort of…
Client (chuckling): Then, yes, I've done that… quite a bit.
Therapist: What did your parents tell you about sex?
Client: It’s like dynamite, if you do it the wrong way it could backfire.
On a t-shirt: Your opinion matters, just not to me
When asked what kind of grades he gets in school, a client replied, “They were all letters.”
During an assessment a client stated, after being asked how he learned about sexuality, “I always had the inclination there was more to my penis than urination.”
A group member asked another "What changed? When you started, you were in such denial?"
He responded, "You know, I finally came to reality about what I did instead of believing the bullshit I wanted to believe."
During an assessment interview, a client reported his hobbies included car shopping. He described this as breaking into people’s cars and taking what he wanted.
Written in an assessment of an offender with a long criminal history:
“To his credit, he has not fathered any children.”
He does a negative energy walk, like a rooster, to intimidate me.
Client: What do you call a musician without a girlfriend? Answer: Homeless
“She says I forced sex on her but my parents didn’t hear it.”
Therapist: Were they in the house at the time?
“They were in the same room.”
Therapist: Is it possible she didn’t want to have sex because your parents were in the room?
“Looking back on it, that’s probably it.”
“You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than of buying a pull tab.”
Thanks for listening! Prepare for a Merry Christmas!
Frank Frank speaking on forensics at Inver Hills Community College to criminal justice and law enforcement students.
This is Frank with members of the Inver Hills Community College Criminal Justice Club and the Inver Hills Community College Psychology Club. Frank signing books at Beagle and Wolfe bookstore in Park Rapids. Frank discussed Murder Book with the very well read and well educated Gang Of Twelve Minus One Bookclub (GOTMOB) Preston and Olivia Pierz basketball destroys the Bombers!
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